samba - Feb 2000 - nmbd over ppp

hello everyone.
            I don't have a network, but I'm trying to get my friend to
dialin and use my shares that I have provided via smb. Now I have a big
prob with nmbd and ppp. Under Interfaces I can specify ppp* 192.168.0.2
, which is the ip that the dialin user is assigned and yet still nmbd
shuts down showing an error that no interfaces were found.


# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.0.2     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
lo

# /var/log/samba/log.nmb
[2000/02/12 11:23:51, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(150)
  started asyncdns process 985
[2000/02/12 11:23:51, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(241)
  create_subnets: No local interfaces !
[2000/02/12 11:23:51, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(807)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.
[2000/02/12 11:23:51, 1] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(747)
  Netbios nameserver version 2.0.6 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1998

# /var/log/samba/log.smb
[2000/02/12 11:54:20, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(222)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2000/02/12 11:54:20, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are
available.
[2000/02/12 11:54:21, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643)
  smbd version 2.0.6 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998

Any one knowing how to fix my problem or if it is a prob and samba
doesn't support it please help
thanks

Chris

At 05:50 AM 2/13/00 +1100, root wrote:
>hello everyone.
>            I don't have a network, but I'm trying to get my friend
to
>dialin and use my shares that I have provided via smb. Now I have a big
>prob with nmbd and ppp. Under Interfaces I can specify ppp* 192.168.0.2
>, which is the ip that the dialin user is assigned and yet still nmbd
>shuts down showing an error that no interfaces were found.
>
		SNIP
>
>Any one knowing how to fix my problem or if it is a prob and samba
>doesn't support it please help
>thanks
>
>Chris
>
Try it without the interfaces directive.  I know Samba will work over PPP.
I have done it here at home.  The main difference is that I also have an
ethernet connection on the same server, and the PPP interface uses an
address in the same subnet as the ethernet network.  A route is just added
to the specific IP when the PPP link goes up.

Mikkel

    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
 for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.